Senior Principal Expert/Principal Expert, MSAT (Packaging) (Saint Joseph, United States, Missouri)

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Description

Become the trusted packaging authority for a global organization.

In this highly visible role, you will influence long-term strategy, mentor technical teams, partner with senior leadership, and define the future direction of packaging excellence.

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

As the Senior Principal Expert, Manufacturing Science & Technology, the incumbent will be the "go to" technical and scientific expert for MSAT and Global Supply leadership for BIAH products and processes providing analysis and guidance throughout product / process life cycle and/or guidance to Global Innovation during new product development. This role will provide guidance and influence decisions on new technologies to support the definition of new innovative manufacturing platforms.

The Senior Principal Expert, Manufacturing Science & Technology will lead development, maintenance and advancement of technical/scientific body of knowledge for BIAH Global Supply products and processes, either for new product developments or product life cycle management. The position holder will execute independently technical deliverables and projects and appropriately sized cross-functional technical projects as Project/Program Leader or Project Contributor.

Duties & Responsibilities

Be the "go to" technical expert for Global MSAT and Operations leadership for BIAH products and processes for analysis and guidance throughout product / process method lifecycle:

Provides technical guidance for change requests autonomously.

Analyzes complex process / product data to a higher-order and prepare reports autonomously for decision making.

Provides technical leadership, guidance and influence on processes and strategies for troubleshooting, root cause analysis and execution of technical transfer, manufacturing deviations, validations, analytical tests, etc.

Provides technical leadership and guidance for questions received from Regulatory Authorities in various regulatory processes, e.g. geographical expansion of existing products, post approval changes on existing registrations.

Leads strategy development and deployment of technical solutions for process optimization/ improvement of analytical test methods with possible impact on cost of goods.

Provides guidance and influence decisions on new technologies to support future definition of innovative manufacturing platforms:

Leads scientific exploration on existing BIAH technologies to guide definition of Technology Standards.

Authors technical Position Papers for MSAT Organization.

Recommends and advocates “as expert voice” for on new technologies for potential use in existing or new manufacturing processes.

Recommends and advocates “as expert voice” for future-oriented Technology Platforms.

Leads development, maintenance and advancement of technical body of knowledge for BIAH products and processes:

Continually develops and maintains an appropriate individual level of theoretical and practical expertise to respond to the needs of BIAH.

Leads MSAT mentorship program and mentor MSAT experts in experiential technical and transferrable knowledge growth.

Leads exchange program of Technology expertise across global and local MSAT teams.

Participates as active and influential member of industry working groups representing BIAH.

Leads and advance product / process knowledge within global and local MSAT teams.

Executes independent technical deliverables and projects and appropriately sized cross-functional technical projects as Project Leader, Project Contributor or Program Leader:

Responsible as Global Supply technical lead for new product developments in a Global Innovation-led team.

Provides technical guidance and recommendation for user requirements, product or process changes.

Develops, structures, and leads cross-functional streams / projects / programs aligned with project management methodology.

Proposes and manages scope, budget, schedule, and associated risks to deliver fully functional deliverables / projects meeting Customer requirements.

Ensures compliance to regulatory requirements and BI / external standards (EHS, VICH, Corporate procedures, GxP etc.)

Establishes and maintains communication tools (e.g. project charter, monthly reports) to effectively communicate with all relevant stakeholders.

Ensures and measures customer satisfaction along the project lifecycle.

Requirements

Sr. Principal Expert

Ph.D. in scientific discipline (Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biological sciences preferred) with a minimum of 5 years direct industry experience.

OR

Master’s degree in scientific discipline (Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biological sciences preferred) with a minimum of 10 years direct industry experience.

OR

Bachelor's degree in scientific discipline (Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biological sciences preferred) with a minimum of 14 years direct industry experience.

Experience must be inclusive of at least 3 years leading, influencing and developing people across the organization.

Additional qualification in Business (Supply Chain, Economics) preferred.

Professional Certification in Scientific field or Project Management preferred.

Expertise in novel technologies or sciences is an advantage.

Demonstrated technical leadership and influence and people development.

Fluency in English required – additional language skills are an asset.

Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Demonstrated leadership, influence, and people development in international/intercultural collaboration.

Experience and leadership in Agile Management preferred.

Demonstrated leadership and influence through communications and truly engaging diverse audiences, within and cross organizations and from individual contributor to leadership levels.

Proven and demonstrated specialized/depth of knowledge and leadership in identified discipline.

Proven leadership and mentoring of Experts and influence on peers.

Principal Expert

Ph.D. in scientific discipline (Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biological sciences preferred) with a minimum of three (3) years direct industry experience.

OR

Master’s degree in scientific discipline (Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biological sciences preferred) with a minimum of seven (7) years direct industry experience.

OR

Bachelor's degree in scientific discipline (Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biological sciences preferred) with a minimum of ten (10) years direct industry experience.

Experience must be inclusive of at least one (1) years leading, influencing and developing people across the organization.

Additional qualification in Business (Supply Chain, Economics) preferred.

Professional Certification in Scientific field or Project Management preferred.

Expertise in novel technologies or sciences is an advantage.

Demonstrated technical expertise at bench and production scale.

Fluency in English required – additional language skills are an asset.

Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Demonstrated international/intercultural collaboration.

Training and leadership in Agile Management preferred.

Demonstrated ability to adapt communications and truly engaging diverse audiences, within and cross organizations and from individual contributor to leadership levels.

Proven and demonstrated specialized/depth of knowledge and leadership in identified discipline.

Eligibility Requirements :

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.

Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).

Must be 18 years of age or older.

Desired Skills, Experience and Abilities

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Job details

Seniority
Principal
Function
Manufacturing & CMC
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States
Employment type
Not listed

How this role compares

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444Currently active
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29Countries represented

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